I am a graduate student at the University of Texas studying history.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home after learning about it from my high school biology teacher. I felt like it was almost a obscure community service. I strongly believe that there is life out there in the universe--perhaps not intelligent life, but life nonetheless. I like to feel I am making a small contribution to science by running the screen saver.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.